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specimen plants for winter gardens or exhibitions, 
&c., will be sold at Ghent on May 16 "i following 
days. A catalogue will be issued on 
EMIGRATION.—We are very often asked to supply 
to the evo nin of this or that. 
grants, 
and telegraphic facilities, the cost of living in a 
Y e 
per month with board ; and abou 
innipeg. In New South Wales garde ners e £40 
to £65 a year, with board and lod gi ng. In Victoria 
15s. to 25s. per week with eh in m Assisi 
gardeners obtain from 5s, t а day ‘asmania 
to £45 a year, Mear [n and Teg: at the 
4 Hope, o 40s. eek. 'The 
small capitalist and die Mur Mas ain can turn 
ts 8 
: while, on the 
= artisans, mechanics, and especially duis are 
arned off as not required. 
“ BOTANICAL MANIPULATIONS. "—This is the 
AU 
scopic structure of plan 
now several treatises, MESA wk great excellence, we 
aid to the student by directing his attention to what 
he ought to see, and by explaining the significance 
of what he really d 
THE BunRRIDGE kcu NE. Mr. R. 
writes :— Will you е to announce in you 
columns that I kave темной in contribution "iis 
sum of £10 15s, and that me has been 
placed to the credit of Mr. T. К. BunnrpGE, at the 
National Provincial Bank of England, Limited, at 
Ipswich? Th 
e fund is n cl С 
IDGE, writing on the 4th inst., says —* Although 
the sum raised is small, I am em e if a 
t has, I assure you, 
been a source of great comfort to myself and wife." 
BEDFORDSHIRE HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.— 
The fourth annual meee of this Society will 
hui place > Marg y, July 13. Several classes 
or Roses an i él poate of hardy perennials, 
in which Fare ig prizes are offered, are open to all 
gland. 
" LINDENIA."—'The following plants are figured 
in the last number:— 
ылу concolor var. tonquinensis, t. 77.—A 
f C. concolor with cream-coloured flowers 
а 
spotted. with red, and with a white lip similarly 
spotted. х wy are dark green, elegantly 
marked чр pute 
Miltonia Roezlii rat TÉ. , better known as Odonto- 
s remarkable for its flattened 
segments ts blotched with crimson 
with a broad roundish flat white 
GARDENERS' 
CHRONICLE. 
[Авт 9, 1887. 
plant the Editors recommend a high temperature 
with abundance of moisture, especially in 
growing season, taking care not to allow the 
leaves to remain wet, Thrips should be sedulously 
watched for, and care taken not to injure the flat 
roots which grasp the Herd of the baskets or pots in 
which the plants grow. The plant should not be 
alowed to overflower iio and after ae it 
should be kept dry for a space of two m 
PE devoniana vav. Delphina, t. 80. In this 
e nt 
th rianth is spreading. the segments lanceolate, 
innamon-b ‚ bordered with yellow, and wit 
a large projecting white lip rolled into a tube, 
spotted with red. lant is tive of 
the dise or anterior lobe flattish, streaked and 
Venezuela, where it was чое ои by M. Вомсе- 
ROTH, ап nd i t differs from J being more 
our hee the per ianth segments, 
and the white lip. 
EARTHQUAKE ON THE RIVIERA. etae 
lately before the Academy of Sciences that the 
des receded about 3 feet 
siderable velocity 
h parts 
terrestrial crust to the electricity generated in ihe 
globe itself. It is pointed out, says Nature (from 
which we take this extract), that these там псев 
electricity ; and on this is founded а fresh argument 
for replanting lands that have become disafforested. 
We are glad to learn also that our valued friends, 
2 оа and Mr. HawnunY Mentone, and 
espective gardens, have suffered no injury from 
ds earthquakes 
OUTH HAYLING HORTICULTURAL SOCIET Y.— 
This is a new Society, Mr. Јонх НЕРРЕВв, formerly of 
The Elms, Acton, being one of its principal pro- 
moters. The first exhibition is fixed for August 11. 
ToBACCO конли T ie to the re- 
searches of M. MUELLER, ur t in the c^ 
number of the Annales poen ould se 
undesirable to employ highly nitrogenous manures. 
culture this p These ma; 
indeed induce a more luxuriant growth and a 
arger proportio: albuminoid matters, but 
these latter are objectionable during fermentation, 
and communicat asant odou 
Tobacco when burning. "Too many leaves саа t 
be removed, for the fewer leaves retained the greater 
the proportion of the objectionable albumenoids. 
Potash manures are indicated as favouring the accu- 
mulation of the hydrates of carbon. 
ROYAL A eda osse OF ABER- 
DEEN.—Councillor Lxvow, an of the De 
directors of this Society, as pm да fro 
F. MarrraNp Morr, Aberdeen, a beautiful silver m 
to be competed for at the summer exhibition of the 
Society, nd the best Scotch Thistle. This will be 
quite a new feature, and & strong and spiney com- 
petition is вааран 
Рн HCENIX RUPICOLA.— This handsome Palm has 
become a great favourite for decorative purposes, an 
arge scale by those who 
Shee 
Nursery, Richmond, where a fine collection of these 
Wire is grown. A variegated variety has now 
appeared, whi ch is figured in the January number of 
the Illustration Horticole, 
GARDENERS’ ROYAL aer INSTITU- 
— We understand t a scheme is bein 
promoted to enable the Committe of the Kies 
deners' Royal Benevolent Institut e 
ry grant to | the oners a 
candidates at the last elec- 
s Jubilee. 
ROYAL HORTICULTURAL MUTUAL gie diss 
MENT SociETY. — The me mahas of t 
үсү supped together on Friday e 
olton H 
usion of the first 
session, and passed a very pleasant evening. 
TOBACCO CULTURE IN RUSSIA.—In a report 
on the trade of the ports of the Sea of Azoff for the 
year 1886 the cultivation of the Tobacco plant is 
said to be receiving yearly greater attention, and it 
is expected that it will soon become a icle 
export. * es year the Imperial Government sent 
veral persons to Turkey a la 
culture and the different "qualities of Tobacco, like- 
'They also visited the 
e published, 
given to extend the plantation. The a 
levied on this article for the past three years p= 
been 17,522,014 roubles, and the sum Laat yearly 
Tobases licences 1,767,180 r. At R {о =ч, 
Asmotorr & Со.з Tobacco ie turn out 
annually 6,000,000 r. worth of Tobacco and cigar- 
ettes. 
HARPENDEN HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY.—T 1e 
ninth annual show of the above Society has been 
fixed for Wednesday, August 24. 
“DODGE” FOR GARDENERS. — Mr. J. 
Saurav, Little Efford, Plymouth, has for warded п 
an ingenious, inexpensive е 
у e employs for lessening the stream 
blocking the orifice by the finger. ALT 
cures a cork, and Буры a hole through its centre by 
of а hot iron, and then inserts a portion ofa 
godes quin which | is "lightly longer than the cork 
itself. The cork tapers so that it ‘ill suit almost 
é think our readers may find the con- 
e, and one that anybody can easily 
manufacture ‘for himself. 
SPECIAL Prizes.—As instigating анта о 
“ Green, London, N., 1 
prizes—Silver Cups, Medals, &c.—at numerous exhi- 
bitions to be held this year in the metropolis and the 
provinces. One cup is of the value of five guineas, 
others are of four guineas, "y lesser prizes run down 
the scale to money prizes o 
DAFFODIL COMMITTEE. Pageant м Daffo- 
dil Committee writes as follow: * Mem 
te Daffodils wil very much pti by 
ms of Narcissus tortuosus to the 
The blooms 
ame 
bringing cut too 
next sitting of the Daffodil Committee 
must be from the stock as known by that n 
ой rtothe 1884 Conference, and have been in their 
possession for three years 
hoe inet RECEIVED.— Colonial and Indian 
Exhibition: Reports on the Colonial Sections. Edited 
(London: J. Carrer & Co. 
Holborn. ae eS зш Institution Report for 1884. 
Part II. (Washington, U.S.S., Government Print- 
ing Office.) 
TRADE MEMORANDUM. 
Tur address of Francis & Co., Telegraph 
‚ London, E.C., is 
h En- 
gineers, late of Eagle Td Works, Hatton 
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